THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH 1866. VOL. 40. WASHINGTON LETTER. (Front our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, May loth, 1905. Editor Press: By the splendid manliness of his reply to the striking teamsters, the absolute lack of anything sugges tive of demagoguery, his insistence that the law must be preserved, and his assertion, made at the Iro quois Club of Chicago; that the • State was behind Mayor Dunne and the Nation behind the State, the President has disarmed his enemies and made a giant stride to ward the acornplishment of that legislation which he regards as es sential to the proper control of the railroads of the country. He has left no opportunity for men to say that he is revolutionary, or that he is "playing the effect," and his recommendation must be received as the sincere belief of a man who is honest and fearless beyond all question. As there pre vails considerable confusion re garding the reforms which the President hopes to effect and the evils he seeks to remedy, a some what detailed explanation of the situation seems appropriate for these letters particularly, as most of this information lias been gain ed in personal conversations with the President himself. There are two distinct evils which tin- President seeks to rem edy. The greater is the absolute domination by individuals or cor porations. or combinations of cor porations, of the great highways of commerce, those ironed highways commonly called railroads. Only an exercise of the authority of the State (or government) makes pos sible the acquirement of rights of way and the condemnation of pri vate property under the legal prin ciple of eminent domain. When constructed these railroads consti tute natural monopolies and only by the exercise of governmental regulation and supervision over these monopolies can they be pre vented from working injustice to the people from whom they derive their right to exist. They are not private property, such as wages, bread or other commodities, as has been been claimed by prominent railroad men. If they were the government could not properly seek to supervision and control them. Such supervision over pri vate property would be socialism pure and simple. In essence the right of way of a railroad belongs to the people, can never properly become the property of an individ ual, and its administration is mere ly delegated to those who manage the railroad, always with the re served right on the part of the gov ernment to exercise over it such regulation and supervision as may be necessary to protect the people's rights. The right to fix maximum rates for freight and passenger transportation which the President advocates, would amount to a con crete assertion by Congress of the right of the people to control their own. The railroads will gladl}- accept any regulation which will effect ually prevent all the forms of dis crimination which curtail their 1 profits, but they will oppose to the i better end any legislation which will more completely establish the i right of the government to regulate : and supervise their business. It , is the desire of the President that I Congress shall frame a law which \ will remedy all these evils andes- j tablish, for all time, the rights of the people, as exercised by their representative, the government, over the ironed public highways. For Kent. The store room, so many your- oecu pied by R Seger & Co., will be runted ; to responsible party. 1 SEOER. Cut it Out Boys. Significant but not surprising results followed an inquiry in a school in .in other city recently made into the type of boy, who smoke cigarettes. A record of 20 boys in school who did not smoke and 20 who did was kept for a long period. It was found that of the cigarette smokers 19 were older than the average in their grade, 16 had bad manners, the deportment of 18 and physical condition of 12 were poor, 14 were in bad moral and 18 in bad mental condition, 16 were street loat ers, and 19 failed of promotion. Of the non-smokers none were street loaf ers only two tailed promotion and in all the other mentioned particulars the record showed not more than two who could be classed with the smokers. Street loafing, bad manners, poor scholarship and cigarette smoking seem togo together.—Ex. Baccalaureate Services. In anticipation of the Baccalaureate services of the class ef 1905, Emporium High School, a large audience gather ed in First Presbyterian Church last Sunday evening and paid the tribute of delighted interest to the exercises as conducted. The sermon by the Rev. Robert MeCaslin was exceedingly practical, consisting of an enumerat ing and amplifying of the qualities es sential to success and strongly urging upon the young ladies and gentlemen, comprising the class, the importance of their observance in order to the highest usefulness and happiness in life. The several pastors of the town were in attendance and variously as sisted in the services. The singing by the combined choirs was a feature of marked interest. Don't Miss It. The production of "Faust" at the opera house Monday night by .Mr, Hubert Labadie and his excellent com pany promises to be a rich treat dram atically. Mr. Labadie JIS "Mephisto" has no superior an the stage today and his style of acting is well known to our theatre goers. Mary Van T/omp-La badie is the "Marguerite" and she too, is no stranger here. She is a pleas ing actress of great ability. "Faust" is in the hands of Mr. Frank Smith again this season and will be well bandied. Mr. Smith is by no means new in the part and is a capable ajtor of pleasing appearance and graceful carriage. Seats on sale at Lloyd's. Low Rate Excursion to Portland, Oregon. Account Lewis and Clark Exposition will be in effect via Wisconsin Central Railway. If you intend togo to Port land this year ask the ticket agent to make your ticket read via Wisconsin Central between Chicago and St Paul. Pullman sleepers, free reclining chair cars and a la Carte meals make the journey comfortable and pleasant. Further information cheerfully given by addressing W. 11. Allen, T. A., 621 Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa. 13-7t. Goes to West Virginia. J. C. Skillinan, of Bryan Hill, who has successfully conducted a lumber job for Cameron Lumber Company at Cameron, informs us that he leaves this week for Durban, West Va , where he has taken a ten year contract with E. V. Dunlevie, who has purchased a large tract of timber at Durban. Mr. Skillman will take twenty-flvemenfroin this county. "Jess' " friends hope he may return a lumber baron. Disgraceful Kow. Last Friday night a disgraceful row took place at a "shin-dig," at a house near the Junction. Tom Carney was terribly ill-treated, being kicked and Beriously injured, several ribs being broken. Warrants have been i sued for the party by Esquire Larrabee. The trial will take place as soon as wit neses can be secured. If ever a town needed a Law and Order Society, that town is Emporium. Evidently some one is neglecting their duty. Always the Best. The great Buffalo Dry Goods House of Adam, Meldrum & Anderson Co., who for many years have spoken through the columns of the PRESS to the citizens of this section, keep up their weekly bulletins. This week they have that which interests the ladies. The reliability of this firm is so well known to our people that they need no lengthy notice. They keep their name before the public; the public know them. Pipe Line Men Here. The first of the Pipe Line men ar rived Tueselay morning and active operations will commence on the line. This will make lively work here for the summer. "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WEßSTEß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 18. 1905. DEATH'S DOINGS. STEPHENS. ROBERT STEPHENS, aged 63 years,died at his home on Portage, May 12th, 1905, after a lon# illness. Deceased leaves one daughter, Mrs. Chan. Sykes, of Galeton, his wife having died sev eral yeare ago. Mr. Stevens came tc this country from England and while a resident of this section was a hard working, industrious man. llis fun eral was conducted at the Sizerville school house, last Sunday afternoon and was largely attended. Rev. O. S. Metzler, Pastor of First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Emporium, of ficiating. CHAD WICK. MRS. MABEL (MOTT) CHADWICK, aged 39 years, wife of Mr. Ray Chad wick, of North Creek, died Wednes day, May 10th, 1900, after an illness of three months, leaving a husband and five children, also father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Freemont Mott. Realiz iug her death was near, she called hus band and other relatives to her bed side and directed or wished that cer tain relatives should take her children. Mrs. Chadwick was well and favorably known in this section, which was at tested by the very large attendance at the funeral of deceased on Saturday afternoon last. For several years de ceased taught school in Shippen and at tended high school in Emporium and made many friends here. She was ex ceptionally bright. The husband, children and parents have the deep sympathy of a large circle of friends. Rev. Dow conducted the funeral ser vices at Rich Valley Church. Transporting Explosives. Philadelphia Press. The Harrisburg accident might, as far as one can see, have happened un der any system of transporting explo sives by rail. By a somewhat similar accident, though in this case on a wharf, Amsterdam some years ago had & terrible explosion under the strictest regulation for the carriage of explo Bives. But the explosion on the Pennsylva nia railroad will and should lead to a demand for the federal regulation of the transportation of explosives by land. No regulation whatever exists to-day. A statute two-score years old, passed after an accident, prohibits un der penalty, the carr'age of explosives by land or sea in the samt) vehicle or boat with passengers. New York has enacted a like provision for commerce within that state. Most states are without even this prohibition, though gross carelessness in the matter lead ing to loss of life would doubtless 3e held by ajury to be manslaughter, aven without a statute. More is needed i a England for thirty years a special commission on explosives has had charge of the en ire subject. It regulates the manu facture, storage and carriage of high explosives in the United Kingdom. The inspectors of explosives cost in he United Kingdom $22,200 a year, as much as will be awarded in damages For a singlo one of the lives lost Thurs Jay. This supervision in England has gone on for over thirty years. The innual average of deaths from either the manufacture or carriage of explo sives is only two or three a year over a long term. The mineral product of the United Kingdom is, moreover. Duly jußt short of that of the United states and the chief use of explosives is in mine and quarry. The manufacture of high explosives must necessarily be under state super vision in this country; but the federal government should regulate transpor tation. A brief act should place the power in the hands of the interstate aommerce commission. At present dynamite is shipped as freight, with other freight. Abroad it has to be sent in separate trains, suitably marked. Over 1,000,000,000 pounds of blasting powder are yearly made in this coun- Lry. High explosives to the amount of 215,000,000 pounds were made in I'JOO. This is nearly all transported by rail. This means that about 500,000 tons of blasting powder and 100,000 tons of nitroglycerine are yearly in freight cars going somewhere. Yearly the amount increases. Many indus tries depend upon cheap explosives. Their transportation should be un hampered, but it should not continu unregulated. Jolly Fishing Party. Last Tuesday morning, Mr. and Mrs H. C. Fritz, Mrs. H. (i. Flint, of Buf falo, and William Weiman, Esq., en joyed a day's outing for speckled beauties. Of course the New Warner boardf rs feasted on trout yesterday morning. The Observer. A few years ago Professer James oi Havard published a little book entitled "The Will to Believe." Ife showed with profound psychological analysis that our attitude of faith or unfaith to. wards the underlying realities of ex istence rests in the end upon the will. In holding a belief the will is involved as well as the intellect. In this conclu sion he is thoroughly right. Yet many persons of culture seem to regard be lief as purely an intellectual matter. Not only so, but the part which the in tellect plays in connection with belief is regarded as a passive and not an act ive part. The mind is looked upon as a sort of weighing scales which have nothing to do except to respond in a passive way to the weights laid upon them, in other words, merely to re gister the difference between opposing weights of evidence. According to this view, one is no more responsible for what he believes or disbelieves than are the scales responsible for the var ious weights which they register. To use another figure, the mind is re garded as being no more responsible for its beliefs than is a photographic plate responsible for the images de veloped upon it. Now despite some plausible consid erations that might be urged in sup port of this view of the nature of be lief, it is nevertheless an essentially shallow and false view. It ignores the plainest facts of psychology. Rut the Observer is interested, not so much in the psychological unsoundness of this view, as in its immoral tendency. For there are practical consequences of hold ing such a view that are disastrous to character The view itself is a denial of the very basis of character. If the spirit of man is nothing more than a passive, impresionable gelatine plate which can do nothing but receive whatever impressions are made upon it, or if it be nothing but a weighing or counting machine, the very founda tion of character and morality is swept away. In reality belief is a matter of inward choice and discrimination as well as of outward fact. What we believe de pends quite as much on what we our selves bring to the questions before us as upon the outward facts that are brought to us. Belief or disbelief or mere indifference is always a revela tion of character or of the lack of char acter. We are responsible for what we believe or disbelieve. The man who believes that expediency is a high er guide than principle, betrays what he himself is in nolding such a belief. rh( man who thinks that self-interest has a stronger claim upon him than lias civic dutv and patriotism shows what his own character is. The man who thinks that religion has no value, fcnd th* ves no duty to the or ganized forms of religious life and in fluence, likewise betrays what he is— or is not. There may here and there be a dis believer in religion who nevertheless is highminded and public spirited and untiring in his efforts in the advance ment of humanity, according to his understanding of it. Bnt such persons are very scarce. The vast majority of those who disbelieve ic religion, per haps showing their disbelief merely by their neglect, are in character shirkers and traitors to the highest interests of humanity. NOTES OF INTEREST. Emporium and Driftwood play ball today. The Male Quartet from Ithaca Con servatory of Music comes especially well recommended. Don't miss it. The anniversary of the Epworth League will be observed next Sunday evening in the First Methodist Epis copal Church with an appropriate pro gram. Mrs. E. Stahley will open an ice cream parlor Saturday May '2oth at the residence of Jas. Johnson on Sixth street, and invites the public to patron ize the same. If you think the telephone rates in your town are high, note the price New Yorkers have to pay. In that city 575 a year is charged for 600 calls on a di rect wire and 8 cents for each message over that number. An unlimited ser vice cannot be purchased.--American Press, April 10, 1902. Remember the entertainment to be given at the Court House, Thursday evening, May 28th, by the Ithaca Con servatory Male Quartette, for the bene fit of the Presbyterian Church. Reg ular admission thirty-five cents. Re served seats, fifty cents. Children twenty-five cents. Seats may be re served at H. S. Lloyd's Tuesday, May 23 rd MANY BODIES MISSING. No Trace of Mr. andfMrs. Jame« McCauley, Lochiel Wreck Victims. Harrisbnrg Telegraph. No trace of Mr. and Mrs. James Mc- Cauley, of Philadelphia, passengers on the train wrecked at Lochiel has been found. It is believed that they were among those who were burned up. A ring, which has been identified as one that belonged to Mrs. Cauley, and a bunch of keys owned by Mr. McCauley, were picked up and have been handed over to relatives in Philadelphia. There are still many other personn unaccounted fur. The statement given out at the office of the general manager at Philadel phia regarding the number of passeng ers on the train will in all probability stand. It is said there were 187 per sons on the train. There were fifteen members of the crew, including rail road and Pullman employes. Of the 23 dead 17 have been identified, and all were injured seriously. The number of employes and passengers who es caped was 19, and 57 were slightly in jured. HUNTING FOR \ ALUABLEB. Inquiries regarding missing passeng ers on the train wrecked at l,oohiel are still coming in at the office of the superintendent of the Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, W. B. McCaleb, Information is also being received regarding lost artlces. While much that was valuable was de stroyed by fire, conclusive evidence has been received indicating that loot ers were at work. A corps of officers, under the direction of Special Officer Abram Root, is making every effort to locate articles of value, clothing, books and papers that may have been picked up and have not been returned to the railway officials. At Steelton a grip was recovered that belonged to one of the patients at the hospital. When it was opened it was found that about $75 was missing. Subsequently, when arrest was threat ened, the man having the grip went to the hospital and restored the money. Commencement Exercises. The graduating exercises of the Class of 1900, Emporium High School, at the opera house last Tuesday night were exceptionally interesting and instruc tive. The relatives and friends of the young people were present in large numbers and generously applauded their efforts which were worthy the approval they received. From theSalu tory by Edward A. Hughes to the Val edictory by Myrtle C. Lloyd, there was not break in the interest and apprecia tion of the audience, but each recita tion, essay or address was received with a burst of applause that gave evi dence of the satisfaction and pride felt by all in the fact that the course of study had been completed by the sev eral members with unquestioned merit and to that extent the preparation for life's work faithfully attended to. The class address by Dr. E. O. Lyte was a timely and practical one, giving some wholesome advice in a pleasant garb and enforcing it with many tell ing incidents from the speakers own life. The music by the Ridgway orchestra was of the proverbial excellence. Faust is Goming Soon. Mr. Hubert Labadie and his com pany will present "Faust" at opera house on Monday night, May 22. The scenery and electrical effects aro said to be exceptionally fine, and the com pany has a most excellent reputation, having played "Faust for the past nine years with great success. Read the following recent notice of their per formance. Without exaggeration, the produc tion of "Faust" given by the Labadie Company at the opera house last even ing was one of the best ever seen in our city. Mary Van Troup-Labadie as Marguei'ite carried off the honors easily Her portrayal of Goethe's im mortal character was as finished as any the stage affords to-day. Hubert Lab adie as Mephisto sustained the part evenly and well. The scenery was all special. The electrical effects were particularly good.-Hornellsville, (N. Y.) Daily. Episcopal Diocesan Convention. The annual convention of the Pitts burg Diocese met at Warren this week, there being a large number of delegates present. Emporium Em manuel Parish was represented by Rev. J. M. Robertson, Hon. Josiah Howard and H. H. Mullin. The beau tiful town of Warren and its citizens received and entertained the visitors in a very cordial manner. TKRMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE. WEATHER REPORT (Forecastby T. B.Lloyd. > FRIDAY, Fair. SATURDAY, Showers. SUNDAY, Fair. AT OPERA HOUSE, MAY 22, 1905, One Night Only. Hubert Labadie and his Company of dramatic artists will present in our city "FAUS T" f1 Y1 ITI Faust's Studio. W li |i" The Garden Scene. 1 ■ I J I i The great Brocken scene The realistic old Prison. All special scenery used for this pro duction carried by the company. Prices: 25c, 35c, 50c and 75c. Seats at H. 3. Lloyd's. The Glorious Fourth. Emporium will celebrate the Fourth of July this year in a becoming man ner. A committee of citizens met at Council room Monday evening and organized. A joint committee of fire men and citizens will be appointed at a meeting to be held next Monday evening, at which time all interested are requested to-attend. Tho following officers were elected to take charge of the celebration: General Manager, Mr. A. A. McDonald. Asst. Manager, Hon. Josiah Howard. Treasurer, Mr. A. P. VanGelder. Secretary, H. H. Mullin. Marshall of Day, Mayor W. H. How ard. It is the desire of the management that our citizens meet with them and assist in making the celebration a suc cess. A grand stand is now being erected in Keystone Park by contract or Kriner, and other improvement aro contemplated. Cameron Coke all Right. Manager Brady, of Emporium Iron & Coal Company informs the PRESS that the furnace at this place is now using, exclusively, the Cameron coke, which has proven a superior quality. When the additional mines, almost ready, are active it will furnish an abundance of coal, sufficient to mine a thousand tons a day for many 3 - ears. This augurs well for Emporium and Samoron in the near future. Mr. Brady has stuck by Emporium and by hard work and careful management has made the iron and coal venture a success. Will Leave Us. Miss Golda B. Lyons, who has very acceptably filled the position of clerk with the PRESS during the past year, leaves next Sunday for Buffalo to ac cept a lucrative place with Alfred H. Post Co., foreign freight contractors and steamer agents, with offices in Buffalo, New York, Boston and San Francisco. The position is a perman ent one. Miss Lyons is fully compete ent and we predict an early promotion. Being exceptionally bright,accurate,en ergetic and a rapid worker, either os short-hand, type writing or books, fhe has few equals. The PRESS regrets to see her leave us, yet we are glad to know she has received a first-cla*s p.op tion at a salary equal to her ability, which is remarkable for one of her age. Our kindest wishes follow her. Married* Miss Grace Ilysong and Mr. Steven Morris, both of Cameron, were united in marriage Weduesdav May 18 at this place by M. M. Larrabee, Justice of the Peace. These estimable young people are well known in Cameron Mr. Morris being mine foreman for the Emporium Iron Co. The PREM join? in congratulations. Dr. Green's Great Puzzle. Dr. G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, will mail for a 2c stamp (simply for postage,) one of his great novelties, a wooden box with a glass top, containing six little colored bali I *. It necessitates remarkable quickness pt the eye and hand to master it, but it is possible, with practice. Send for one and mention Tin: CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. 12 3T NO. 13.
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